Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and especially the relationship between them.
2016 Cap-Ironman Exchange Gifts unveiled on December 30th
It is the fifth day for the unveiling of gifts! Each day we will be revealing the gifts created by participants of the 2016 Cap-Ironman Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts. Over the next week the creators’ identities will be hidden, then, on January 7th, we will reveal all of the authors and artists who participated this year.
Here are today’s gifts!
Not in the fine print for Mushroom (MCU, 3745 words) Steve visits Tony in Stark Industries with a bouquet and an invitation to a lunch date. Story/fanart in POV of a Stark Industries Employee looking at their relationship.
The End is Where We Begin for Muccamukk (Next Avengers, 19944 words) Tony has spent twelve years raising the Avengers' children alone, under Ultron's shadow, thinking everyone else is dead. After finally defeating Ultron, they discover that the Avengers aren't dead after all, but were kept in stasis all along. So, Tony has to reconnect with his partners, Steve and Natasha, after all these years, while Steve has to come to terms with how everything has changed, starting from his son, who is now a teenager instead of a toddler.
baby doll I recognize you're a hideous thing inside for Sineala (Marvel 616, 4526 words) "It's probably a prank," Tony says. He's got his suit on and is taking scans, he doesn't really think this is a prank, but the dear Captain looks like he's going to sneeze blood in his fury so downplaying is the way to go. "It's a threat," Steve says. He's got that glare dialled up to eleven. Tony is pretty happy that it's not directed at him this time.
save the date [illustration] for daisybelle (MCU, art) Tony and Steve are having a date at the market. Nat and Clint have (secretely) set themselves the task of taking as many sappy photos as they possibly can and making sure nobody, neither an overeager Captain America fan nor a certain Dr. Doom, would interrupt the couple in their soulful intense gazing into each other's eyes.
Connection for AngeNoir (MCU, 11592 words) Steve’s not your typical Guide and Guide rights have come a long way since Dr. Erskine had to sneak him into the Rebirth program. True Sentinels are rare, but Anthony Stark is definitely one, and no one feels safe around a potentially violent hedonist like Stark. Only sometimes, Steve thinks the isolation is wearing on Tony, since even Bruce, with his Other Guy, isn’t quite easy around someone who can sense every emotion in the air that someone else is feeling. Slowly, Steve decides to do something to break that isolation.
Adaptive Immunity for Veldeia (Marvel 616, 3867 words) Tony programs Extremis to act as his immune system, and it works a little too well.
Dreamin' Each Night of His Charms for morphia (MCU, 1687 words) There are wet dreams and then there are warm, hard, cuddly dreams that make you feel like the Alpha you can't stop thinking about is actually there in bed with you. Wait, hold on.
Man of Iron - The Changeling Prince for Cap Iron Man Community (AU, 6152 words) Captain Steve Rogers first wandered into Stark's Emporium to get a potion to help his ailing mother. He didn't realize that it was run by the infamous Man of Iron, the former head inventor of the King's court. With mechanical wings (and a mechanical heart), Tony recruits the Captain to help him seek ingredients in the south forest - where the unprepared perish and rich men hire caravans to protect them from the creatures within.
To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2016 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange. Want more? Look at all the past entries by using the Holiday Exchange tag on the Cap-Ironman LiveJournal Community. On Ao3 you can view the 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 exchange entries in the Captain America/Ironman Holiday Exchange Collection.
When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter!
If you’re the creator of a gift that’s been revealed, you can comment back to anyone who comments on your work and it will show up as “Anonymous Author” until the creator names are revealed on the 7th, so please feel free to comment as much as you like.
We’ll be announcing all the gifts for today on tumblr and livejournal, as well as here, if you would like to share and reblog them.
Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date, to help it show up in the AO3 listings for recent works. AO3’s guide is available here and there is a more detailed guide on how to do so here.
Thanks, Laire, Salma, Tea, and Teyke
Your Cap-Ironman Holiday Exchange 2016 Team




